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Saturday, May 19, 2007

Newspaper article about impact of the sixties (hippies)

In our last Story Circle sessions there was much interest expressed in questions about what lasting impact our activities in the sixties may have had, that we can still see today, if any.

Joe Lysowski missed these meetings because he is escaping the Santa Cruz "winters", at this time in Hawaii. Without being aware of our currently active interest in this subject, he was excited enough about the following newspaper article, to email it to a couple of friends. It now occurs to me that it might be nice to bring it to everyone's attention. This blog seems perfect for this kind of thing. I hope you find it interesting, meaningful, and maybe even a bit heartening too. Enjoy. leon

Go ahead, name your movement. Name something good and positive and pro-environment and eco-friendly that’s happening right now in the newly “greening” America and don’t say more guns in Texas or fewer reproductive choices for women or endless vile unwinnable BushCo wars in the Middle East lasting until roughly 2075 because that would defeat the whole point of this perky little column and destroy its naive tone of happy rose-colored sardonic optimism. OK? I’m talking about, say, energy-efficient lightbulbs. I’m looking at organic foods going mainstream. I mean chemical-free cleaning products widely available at Target and I’m talking saving the whales and protecting the dolphins and I mean yoga studios flourishing in every small town, giant boxesof organic cereal at Costco and non-phthalates dildos at Good Vibes and the Toyota Prius becoming the nation’s oddest status symbol. You know, /good/things. Look around: we have entire industries devoted to recycled paper, a new generation of cheap solar-power technology and an Oscar for “An InconvenientTruth” and even the soulless corporate monsters over at famously heartless joints like Wal-Mart are now claiming that they really, really care about saving the environment because, well, “it’s the right thing to do” (read: It’s purely economic and all about their bottom line because if they don’t start caring they’ll soon be totally screwed on manufacturing and shipping costs at/from all their brutal Chinese sweatshops). There is but one conclusion you can draw from the astonishing (albeit fitful, bittersweet) pro-environment sea change now happening in the culture and (reluctantly, nervously) in the halls of power inD.C., one thing we must all acknowledge in our wary, jaded, globally warmed universe: The hippies had it right all along. Oh yes they did.You know it’s true. All this hot enthusiasm for healing the planet and eating whole foods and avoiding chemicals and working with nature and developing the self? Came from the hippies.Alternative health? Hippies. Green cotton? Hippies. Reclaimed wood? Recycling? Humane treatmentof animals? Medical pot? Alternative energy? Natural childbirth? Non-GMA seeds? It came from the granola types (who, of course, absorbed much of it from ancient cultures), from the alternative world views, from the underground and the sidelines and from far off the goddamn grid and it’s about time the media, the politicians,the culture as a whole sent out a big, wet, hemp-covered apology. Here’s a suggestion, from one of my more astute ex-hippie readers: Instead of issuing carbon credits so industrial polluters can clear their collective corporate conscience, maybe, to help offset all the savage damage they’ve done to the soul of the planet all these years, these commercial cretins should instead buy some /karma/credits from the former hippies themselves. You know,from those who’ve been working for the health of the planet, quite thanklessly, for the past 50 years and who have, as a result, built up quite astore house of good karma. You think? Of course, you can easily argue that much of the“authentic” hippie ethos — the anti-corporate ideology, the sexual liberation, the anarchy, the push for civil rights, the experimentation — has been totally leeched out of all these new movements, that corporations have forcibly co-opted and diluted every single technology and humble pro-environment idea and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream cone and Odwalla smoothie to make them both palatable and profitable. But does this somehow make the organic oils in that body lotion any more harmful? Verily, it does not. You might also just as easily claim that much of the nation’s reluctant turn toward environmental health has little to do with the hippies per se, that it’s taking the threat of global meltdown combined with the notion of really, really expensive ski tickets to slap the nation’s incredibly obese ass into gear and force consumers to begin to wake up to the savage gluttony and wastefulness of American culture as everyone starts wondering, oh my God, what’s going to happen to swimming pools and NASCAR and free shipping from Amazon? Of course, without the ’60s groundwork, without all the radical ideas and seeds of change planted nearly five decades ago, what we’d be turning /to/ in our time of need would be a great deal more hopeless indeed. But if you’re /really/ bitter and shortsighted,you could say the entire hippie movement overall was just incredibly overrated, gets far too much cultural credit for far too little actual impact, was pretty much a giant excuse to slack off and enjoydirty lazy responsibility-free sex romps and do a ton of drugs and avoid Vietnam and not bathe for a month and name your child Sunflower or Shiva Moon or Chakra Lennon Sapphire Bumblebee. This is what’s called the reactionary simpleton’s view. It blithely ignores history, perspective, the evolutionof culture as a whole. You know, just like America. But, you know, whatever. The proofs are easy enough to trace. The core values and environmental groundwork laid by the ’60s counterculture are still so intact and potent even the stiffest neocon Republican has to acknowledge their extant power. It’s all right there: Treehugger.com is the new ’60s underground hippy zine. Ecstasy is the new LSD. Visible tattoos are the new longhairs. And bands as diverse as Pearl Jam to Bright Eyes to NIN to the Dixie Chicks are writing savage anti-Bush, anti-war songs for a new, ultra-jaded generation. And oh yes, speaking of good ol’ MDMA (Ecstasy), even drug culture is getting some new respect. Staid old Time mag just ran a rather snide little story about the new studies being conducted by Harvard and the National Institute of Mental Health into the astonishing psychospiritual benefits of goodly entheogens such as LSD, psilocybin and MDMA. Unfortunately, the piece basically backhands Timothy Leary and the entire “excessive,” “naive” drug culture of yore in favor of much more “sane” and“careful” scientific analysis happening now, as if the only valid methods for attaining knowledge and an understanding of spirit were through control groups and clinical, mysticism-free examination. Please. Still, the fact that serious scientific research into entheogens is being conducted even in the face ofthe most anti-science, pro-pharmaceutical, ultra-conservative presidential regime in recent history is proof enough that all the hoary old hippie mantras about expanding the mind and touching God through drugs were onto something after all (yes,duh). Tim Leary is probably smiling wildly right now—though that might be due to all the mushrooms he’sbeen sharing with Kerouac and Einstein and Mary Magdalene. Mmm, heaven. Of course, true hippie values mean you’re not really supposed to care about or attach to any of this, you don’t give a damn for the hollow ego stroke of being right all along, for slapping the culture upside the head and saying, See? Do you see? It was never about the long hair and the folk music and Woodstock and taking so much acid you see Jesus and Shiva and Buddha tongue kissing in a hammock on the Dog Star, nimrods. It was, always and forever, about connectedness. It was about how we are all in this together. It was about resisting the status quo and fighting tyrannical corporate/political power and it was about opening your consciousness and seeing new possibilities of how we can all live with something resembling actual respect for the planet, for alternative cultures, for each other. You know, all that typical hippie crap no one believes in anymore. Right?[Ah... that felt good. Of course, while we're at it, we should probably also mention that the Beatniks were right about a lot of that stuff first. Unless the Bohemians were right first. But it's really the same thing, and that's as far back as I go... -psl]

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I am Corry Arnold, the person who researched the history of The Barn cited below. My co-conspirator and I have continued our research, and have much to update, but have not yet had time to update the site (well, except for the fact that the cover shots for the first Country Joe and The Fish album was taken at The Barn. These are the only known photos of The Magic Theatre Light Show. Note that CJF are all "playing" left handed, since the negatives are reversed).

As for me, I am a bit younger. In the sixties, my parents would drive us to Santa Cruz (from Palo Alto), and my sister and I would beg to be allowed to go to Lost World, to no avail. In the 70s, when I discovered that there had been a mysterious rock venue hidden in the mountains, it confirmed my suspicion that those plastic dinosaurs were calling out to me as best they could. Or something like that.

Please feel free to contact me through the site. I am interested in the identities of bands who played The Barn, and anything about the New Delhi River Band performancess(another project--I am in touch with a variety of people).

Well Leon - It doesn't look as if your experiment got off the ground. I'm hooking up here almost a year after the latest post. I wonder if anyone will see it? Who cares. I was one of your patients, refered by Dr. Geise in around 64 or so. We had some rousing (snore) sessions out in Aptos. As I recall I'd walk in, you'd say "Hello Dennis" and we'd sit and You'd vibrate in your chair while I promptly fell asleep, which was a good thing in that I probably needed the rest. After an hr you'd clear your throat, I'd awaken, hand you Mom's check for whatever it was and I'd be on my way feeling fresh and ready for my next hit of whatever substance was current.. This is "tongue in cheek" Leon. I'm a SC native. I was born w/my tongue firmly lodged in my cheek. There was no way I could verbalize the changes i was going thru. Hell, i bought my first hit of acid from Ron Bevirt (Hassler) over the counter in the Hip Pocket. It was as yet a legal substance. Ron (and the always aloof Peter Demma) required along with the $5. for the 250 mic. cap that i take a complimentary copy of the Psychedelic review which would end up on the coffee table or shredded into confetti offerings to the gods on cowell's beach, as my comrades and i melted thru the bardos.. Somehow these guys thought i'd derive some intellectual value from the PR (?).. I recall they'd keep their LSD behind the counter in a little dorm fridge. Then there was the Free Speech Nights at the store: Those nights coincided closely with the timeline up in Berkeley where the real action was transpiring. I'm sure all your motives were innocent and pure of form and spirit, but my feelings were if we wanted to effect any real change we probably needed to venture where it was happening.BEZERKELEY..... Oh Yeah we were real comfy in SC, could wear our hipness like feathers and preen each other like barnyard cockerels, not noble fighting cocks, more like banty hens.. Enough poultry........

I never fit your typical SC hippie mold. Sure i walked the walk, but it always seemed kind of sissy and phony, so i found a new drug - methedrine! Of course even you know that anyone with any sense of self-survival doesn't last long with such a devastating drug so I firmly settled into a more traditional lifestyle: I became finally fulfilled with my new heroin friend. We spent 10 memorable years together, me and smack. I dealt it and did it from LA to SF. Shot dope in the bathroom of the Big Sur Lodge. They kicked me out of Esalen. I wonder why?? Hit the skids like every junkie will, crossed a few lines and wound up giving the Dept of Corrections 5 yrs. Got strong, vegetarian, learned to meditate, all good.. I made a million dollars for the Hells Angels way back beyond the statute of limitations. All my fellow junkies are dead. My fellow hippies have morphed - what's worse?

Now i drink green tea and smoke a little herb, live in Kansas 25 miles South of the exact center of the continent. Life is good. I stumbled on this blog having Googled "Leon Tabori". Be Well,Bertuccelli

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I usually do not leave a leave a response, but I browsed a few of the comments on this page "Newspaper article about impact of the sixties (hippies)".I do have a couple of questions for you if it's allright. Is it just me or does it give the impression like a few of these remarks appear like they are left by brain dead individuals? :-P And, if you are writing at additional sites, I'd like to follow anything new you have to post. Would you list of all of all your shared pages like your twitter feed,Facebook page or linkedin profile?

It was, always and forever, about connectedness. It was about how we are all in this together. It was about resisting the status quo and fighting tyrannical corporate/political power and it was about opening your consciousness and seeing new possibilities of how we can all live with something resembling actual respect for the planet, for alternative cultures, for each other.

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